Carex barbarae; Santa Barbara Sedge

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Carex barbarae; Santa Barbara Sedge

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Carex barbarae
Santa Barbara Sedge

Photographer: Aaron Schusteff

ID: 0000 0000 1215 1089 (2015-12-06)

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date of photo May 17, 2015

location Jackson Flats Trail, Butano State Park (San Mateo County, California, US)

family Cyperaceae

notes Growing in a wet area along a tributary brook to Butano Creek.

Detail of the central portion of a (mostly pistillate) spike. Though its hard to make out, there are 2 stigmas per flower, and the yellow-green perigynia are glabrous with the beak subtly bidentate. The scales subtending each perigynium are long-acuminate to awned.

For more info on the ID here, see the remarks under the 1st photo in this series.

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photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT

common names Santa Barbara Sedge (photographer)

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